No Encyclopedia Entry for Weep Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry. 2. (v.) imp. of Weep. 3. (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry. 4. (v. i.) To lament; to complain. 5. (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops. 6. (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked. 7. (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches. 8. (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. 9. (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
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